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at a crucial moment and many time for us to -- and in time for us to act. these three features of big data, more, messy and correlations, are used to save lives. premature babies are prone to infections. it's very important to know infections very early on. but how do you do that? in the analog, small data world, you would take vital signs every couple of hours. blood ox yes nation level, heart or beat, heart rate, these type of things. now, part of a research project in canada, researchers collect 16 realtime data flows from premature babies and collect about over 1,000 realtime data points a second from them. then they combine the data and look for patterns, look for correlations and were able to spot the onset of an infection 24 hours in advance. way before the first symptoms would manifest themselves. that's incredibly important for these prixmies because then they can receive medication well before the infection is strong and can, perhaps, not be combated, battled successfully. perhaps, intriguingly, the best predicter for these, in these vital signs i
at a crucial moment and many time for us to -- and in time for us to act. these three features of big data, more, messy and correlations, are used to save lives. premature babies are prone to infections. it's very important to know infections very early on. but how do you do that? in the analog, small data world, you would take vital signs every couple of hours. blood ox yes nation level, heart or beat, heart rate, these type of things. now, part of a research project in canada, researchers...
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why do they hate us? >> good question they have been asking that since 1899 as i discovered looking at old copies of "the new york times" and it turns out first of all,, is they don't hate us. if we think of world opinion. the united states since we had the advent of scientific polling in the '20s and '30s, in almost every country on the planet at almost any point* in time the united states was more popular than unpopular and americans are much more like to fan disliked. and continue discover there is a very small fringe of various political movements that have hatred for the united states but we are more popular around the world and we believe and that is part of the myth. >> host: you are some of the of the day? who is asking the question? if you think of the context al qaeda seems to have many members who are quite angry at united states and to wish it ill but i found very often in the united states our discussion of opinion rapidly slides into the sense that "they" includes foreigners in general that
why do they hate us? >> good question they have been asking that since 1899 as i discovered looking at old copies of "the new york times" and it turns out first of all,, is they don't hate us. if we think of world opinion. the united states since we had the advent of scientific polling in the '20s and '30s, in almost every country on the planet at almost any point* in time the united states was more popular than unpopular and americans are much more like to fan disliked. and...
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for having us. i in particular am very honored to be a moderator because up until now this late date in my career, no one has ever found me moderate enough in my views -- [laughter] so i'm really happy to tonight, for the first time in my life, moderate a panel. and it's, obviously, a great honor to talk about breathty friedan's "feminine mystique" on its 50th anniversary. obviously, it's a book that has put this mark under the culture, and really that very, very rare book that one could make the argument that it actually changed people's lives and that it actually changed the culturement of it's also come under criticism more recently for not, for only reflecting the lyes of a very -- lives of a very small group of people, for not talking about working class women who had no choice but to work all along and not talking about people of other sexual preferences who may have already found themselves kind of askew or outside of conventional life. but what i want to do today a little bit is talk about,
for having us. i in particular am very honored to be a moderator because up until now this late date in my career, no one has ever found me moderate enough in my views -- [laughter] so i'm really happy to tonight, for the first time in my life, moderate a panel. and it's, obviously, a great honor to talk about breathty friedan's "feminine mystique" on its 50th anniversary. obviously, it's a book that has put this mark under the culture, and really that very, very rare book that one...
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every one of us is so grateful to the american before us. so why don't we give colleges and schools to set up wasting billions and billions and billions paying for wars which in the end resulted in -- [inaudible] >> ambassador ahmed, you write in the trenton about a recent survey of american and afghan soldiers. this is how the afghans view the american. they always shout. they are crazy to they always were costly saying f. you. their arrogance sickens us. they don't care about civilian casualties. they p. all over right in front of civilians including females. >> peter, of course, with the americans thought of -- and i go to the next that is what the americans thought of the afghan forces. they are kurds. we're better off without them. i don't trust locals. i would never like to admit that iraqis are smarter, but they are einstein's compared afghans. these guys only seem to care about their own tribes. >> back to the tries. they are right. so you still interesting come this is an american survey conducted in washington, a political survey.
every one of us is so grateful to the american before us. so why don't we give colleges and schools to set up wasting billions and billions and billions paying for wars which in the end resulted in -- [inaudible] >> ambassador ahmed, you write in the trenton about a recent survey of american and afghan soldiers. this is how the afghans view the american. they always shout. they are crazy to they always were costly saying f. you. their arrogance sickens us. they don't care about civilian...
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it should be for all of us. it is mad he that people don't other three branches of government are they confused the constitution but the declaration of independence are all the things they see because our schools have not had the essays that focus on race towards civic education to education and that should be part clap back and economically driven immigration strategy, patriotic energy strategy, my guesses are getting closer to 22% incremental growth that creates a rebirth of our country. the way to sustain it is to assure every child gets the kind of education that allows them to be successful in the pursuit of their dreams. sadly today the greatest country has more or less the following results after spending more per student than any country in the world, a third of cancer college or career ready by the time to complete the journey through 12th grade. third, get a piece of paper that says your high school graduate but if they go to community college or four year university, they have to take remedial courses
it should be for all of us. it is mad he that people don't other three branches of government are they confused the constitution but the declaration of independence are all the things they see because our schools have not had the essays that focus on race towards civic education to education and that should be part clap back and economically driven immigration strategy, patriotic energy strategy, my guesses are getting closer to 22% incremental growth that creates a rebirth of our country. the...
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seven of us were taken prisoner of war. in those nine long days as i lay in that iraqi hospital, not being able to move or feel anything below my waist, i never gave up. this was difficult because my injuries were severe. i only ate a few crackers a day, and i wanted to see them open the package before they could give them to me. i only had a couple glasses of orange juice. sometimes only one per day. i had a head laceration and a broken humerus. my back was broke from my fourth and fifth lumbar. my left femur was also broke. the iraqis actually tried to repair it by doing surgery themselves. luckily, once i got back into germany, they repaired all the rods. my left tibia was also broke. it now has a rod in it. and i cannot feel anything from my foot -- my left foot. my right foot was completely crushed and it's now healed together with pins and screws and a plate on one side, and i will have a surgery in january to refix it because of all the stress that i have been putting on it over the past almost two years. but i knew
seven of us were taken prisoner of war. in those nine long days as i lay in that iraqi hospital, not being able to move or feel anything below my waist, i never gave up. this was difficult because my injuries were severe. i only ate a few crackers a day, and i wanted to see them open the package before they could give them to me. i only had a couple glasses of orange juice. sometimes only one per day. i had a head laceration and a broken humerus. my back was broke from my fourth and fifth...
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at a meeting he -- not eat us. gentlemen, if you're finished going, we will get on with more important matters. and another, all the nut eaters and food fabrics i've ever known died early, after long periods of senile decay. another churchill favorite food was irish stew, with plenty of onions, and surprise lake sometimes pineapple. this is the mail the churchill served to general eisenhower when they planned the invasion of europe. and, of course, caviar. churchill loved caviar. he was thrilled when he received lots of caviar as a gift from the soviet union. churchill eight small portion. churchill loved picnics. whenever the place or the weather, even in wartime, there's a wonderful photo in the book shall churchill in a three-piece suit enjoying a picnic sitting on a rock by the side of the road. a picnic with roosevelt at hyde park. a picnic on the banks of the rhine with his generals. and the north african desert with friends. he established his own picnic rituals, enthusiastically singing old indian army coat
at a meeting he -- not eat us. gentlemen, if you're finished going, we will get on with more important matters. and another, all the nut eaters and food fabrics i've ever known died early, after long periods of senile decay. another churchill favorite food was irish stew, with plenty of onions, and surprise lake sometimes pineapple. this is the mail the churchill served to general eisenhower when they planned the invasion of europe. and, of course, caviar. churchill loved caviar. he was...
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we got a real problem ahead of us. during my term in aig, we were nationalized twice, once in iran and once in pakistan. they were located in both cases, went to the world court and got compensated on the iran issue, and pakistan they nationalized this, and they compensated them after this. if this, when i just described happened with aig, happened in a third world country, i'd be down in washington pounding the table about what they had done to the company. we're doing that by suing the u.s. government. what happened should not have happened. that's what the environment is like today. we have -- boards have taken over, companies, the ceos have lost a lot of power. i'm not saying they were all wrong or all right. all i can tell you is my experience with -- with an aggressive disgraced attorney general in new york that started that process and then went -- what happened to enron that led to changes in the entire environment. we got to find our way back to a reasonable regulatory environment that encourages this, not dis
we got a real problem ahead of us. during my term in aig, we were nationalized twice, once in iran and once in pakistan. they were located in both cases, went to the world court and got compensated on the iran issue, and pakistan they nationalized this, and they compensated them after this. if this, when i just described happened with aig, happened in a third world country, i'd be down in washington pounding the table about what they had done to the company. we're doing that by suing the u.s....
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that made us stronger. this operated worldwide. there was a culture, it doesn't happen automatically. you create a culture. it was a winning culture. senior people to work together very well and the board of directors initially made up of inside people, and outside people, all that changed with the first part of the book but to show what we meant to the country. a couple that i will talk about briefly, a book was written that was about a russian submarine that went down in the northwest pacific and the russians did not know where the hell it was and could not find it. the u.s. knew exactly where was and wanted to recover it because code books were important and technology was important. there is a meeting in my apartment in new york this the day and a of the howard hughes they had to build the vessel with a hole in the center to scoop up the sub but what if the russians decided would fire on it? we could not bring it to hawaii. they had to find a pacific island tenuous position -- possession and build the pork. we provided the insu
that made us stronger. this operated worldwide. there was a culture, it doesn't happen automatically. you create a culture. it was a winning culture. senior people to work together very well and the board of directors initially made up of inside people, and outside people, all that changed with the first part of the book but to show what we meant to the country. a couple that i will talk about briefly, a book was written that was about a russian submarine that went down in the northwest pacific...
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when the government of the need to guard against the emergency used as an opportunity for picking up the ice of the british empire and he warned them they need to prevent it from becoming a satellite of the united states. he said there were orders in the united states intended to use the grant to postwar credit as an opportunity for opposing the american conception of the international economic system. for all keynes' brilliance he was also perhaps the world's worst diplomat. in 1917 during the first world war, he made his first official word on transit trip to washington. it was a baking mission to the u.s. treasury. here are some of the comments that came back. he was rude, dogmatic and this obliging and too offensive for words. these quotes came from the british ambassador and his financial. [laughter] naturally with the americans said was worse. but the question one really has to have their about kings of the diplomat is could anyone have done better for britain with the hand they doll, which which was appalling. i answer perhaps surprisingly is yes, that keynes a bad hand to pla
when the government of the need to guard against the emergency used as an opportunity for picking up the ice of the british empire and he warned them they need to prevent it from becoming a satellite of the united states. he said there were orders in the united states intended to use the grant to postwar credit as an opportunity for opposing the american conception of the international economic system. for all keynes' brilliance he was also perhaps the world's worst diplomat. in 1917 during the...
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i use it. why do i use it? because when i put in a search term, thanks to collaboration between wales and google, wikipedia's the first hit. didn't used to be, now it is. okay. so i looked ate first -- at it first. this is what i have to do research on. but the question is with any kind of research do you stop there, do you say, done deal, or do you say i've learned something, but now i need to go learn it in depth x. the problem is that lack of in-depth learning and lack of the motivation for the in-depth learning. the lack of saying, you know, i could actually read a book on this. we have libraries, why do we have libraries in and so many libraries are getting rid of the books and saying what you need to do is read it as an e- on an e-book or as a file. and the problem with that is we lose the concentration, the hands-on of laying out five books and saying, you know, this one says this, but this one seems to say something or very different. okay, when were they published, what do i know about the authors? thi
i use it. why do i use it? because when i put in a search term, thanks to collaboration between wales and google, wikipedia's the first hit. didn't used to be, now it is. okay. so i looked ate first -- at it first. this is what i have to do research on. but the question is with any kind of research do you stop there, do you say, done deal, or do you say i've learned something, but now i need to go learn it in depth x. the problem is that lack of in-depth learning and lack of the motivation for...
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can you talk to us about this book? >> yes, we are in the court system, the questions have to do with the executive privilege that president obama asserted over last june and whether those documents have to be turned over to congress. now, there are still thousands of documents that have been requested that are sitting in the justice department that are not being turned over. the court will decide whether those have to be. that is where we are coming up with a deal. so we are kind of waiting for that brief. mark is a good month to see what will happen or not. >> can you give us a brief overview? >> okay, it is essentially the department of justice using the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. they spent 2500 rifles into the hands of mexicans in mexico, and also those kinds of things here. >> if you want more information on her butt, she was a guest on our "after words" program last year. you can go to the booktv archives and search for katie pavlich or "fast and furious." moving onto your book, just recently, you
can you talk to us about this book? >> yes, we are in the court system, the questions have to do with the executive privilege that president obama asserted over last june and whether those documents have to be turned over to congress. now, there are still thousands of documents that have been requested that are sitting in the justice department that are not being turned over. the court will decide whether those have to be. that is where we are coming up with a deal. so we are kind of...
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he used a horn to hear. and mr. mills said you could always tell when the chairman was bored, he'd put down the horn. [laughter] and he didn't have a very good relationship with sam rayburn. so from the time mr. mills went on the committee, he was the one who was doing the committee research, and he was the one that was carrying messages from the chairman to the speaker and vice versa. and so went on, proceeded -- mr. doughton left congress, and a couple of other people died and left congress, and in 1958 mr. mills became the youngest person ever to become chairman of ways and means. and he ended up serving longer than anyone else had ever served as a member of the committee. so 1971 comes along, and his power is at its height. and that's when i met him, because many 1971 -- because in 1971 when i was teaching skip or he was teaching me, maybe a little of both, the university of arkansas department of political science went to washington to establish internships in the offices of our members of the delegation. and s
he used a horn to hear. and mr. mills said you could always tell when the chairman was bored, he'd put down the horn. [laughter] and he didn't have a very good relationship with sam rayburn. so from the time mr. mills went on the committee, he was the one who was doing the committee research, and he was the one that was carrying messages from the chairman to the speaker and vice versa. and so went on, proceeded -- mr. doughton left congress, and a couple of other people died and left congress,...
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all of us. all of us have done wrong and we are sinners. all of us have broken the law at some point in our lives. if you are an adult, you have broken the law at some point in your life. i find that some people say oh, yeah, i am a sinner. i have made mistakes, but don't call me a criminal. don't call me a criminal. and i say, okay, well, maybe you never drink underage or experiment with drugs. and the worst thing you have done in your entire life is speed 10 miles over the speed limit on the freeway. there are people in the united states serving life sentences. for small things. the u.s. supreme court said it is not cool and unusual punishment to sentence a young man to life imprisonment for a first-time drug offenders. even though virtually no other country in the world does that. president barack obama himself has and then into more than a little bit of drug use in his time. he has admitted to using marijuana and cocaine in his years. and if he hadn't been raised by white grandparents in hawaii, if he hadn't done much with his illegal d
all of us. all of us have done wrong and we are sinners. all of us have broken the law at some point in our lives. if you are an adult, you have broken the law at some point in your life. i find that some people say oh, yeah, i am a sinner. i have made mistakes, but don't call me a criminal. don't call me a criminal. and i say, okay, well, maybe you never drink underage or experiment with drugs. and the worst thing you have done in your entire life is speed 10 miles over the speed limit on the...
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all of us are sinners. all of us have done wrong. all of us have broken the law at some point in our lives. if you're an adult, you've broken the law at some point in your life. i find some people say i'm a sinner. i've made mistakes, but don't make me a criminal. i say okay, well maybe he never drank underage. maybe never experimented with drugs. the worst thing you've done in your entire life is the 10 miles over the speed limit on the freeway can be put yourself and others at risk and harm the someone's smoking marijuana in the privacy of their living room. but there are people in the united states serving life sentences for first time drug is the u.s. supreme court upheld by sentences for first-time drug offenders against an eighth amendment challenge to such sentences were cruel and unusual in violation of the eighth amendment. the supreme court said no, it's not cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a gunman to life in prison for first-time drug offense even though virtually no other country in the world does such a thing. w
all of us are sinners. all of us have done wrong. all of us have broken the law at some point in our lives. if you're an adult, you've broken the law at some point in your life. i find some people say i'm a sinner. i've made mistakes, but don't make me a criminal. i say okay, well maybe he never drank underage. maybe never experimented with drugs. the worst thing you've done in your entire life is the 10 miles over the speed limit on the freeway can be put yourself and others at risk and harm...
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how did that work for us in 2008? in other words, all the stuff about hedge funds in 2007 and in 2006, and they have a whole bunch of claims and this is one of them. they keep the crashes from happening. they make the whole system more flexible and make sure there is money when you want to buy a and sell stocks you can always do it. we go through each one of them in chapter 2 or three or whatever it is we go through each single one of them had died and you will find that the claims are based on wishful thinking. really the only thing they care about, the only thing they care about is squeezing out some profit. anybody here invest money anywhere? okay. when you press the button to buy something, before that trade goes through, there are a group of hedge funds called high-frequency traders that by the stock faster than you do and sell it back for a few pennies more every single time. they are located right next to the wall street exchange from five to $20 billion a year doing that. now, tell me what good that does for y
how did that work for us in 2008? in other words, all the stuff about hedge funds in 2007 and in 2006, and they have a whole bunch of claims and this is one of them. they keep the crashes from happening. they make the whole system more flexible and make sure there is money when you want to buy a and sell stocks you can always do it. we go through each one of them in chapter 2 or three or whatever it is we go through each single one of them had died and you will find that the claims are based on...
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join us as we explore its rich and varied history. beginning with a look at some of cities hidden stories from the past. >> the book is "the hidden history of alexandria." the last part of that time is very important because it's not about alexandria, virginia. it's about a period in history when the district of columbia included parts of what's now virginia. what i wanted to do was look at a 50 year time period and give a sense of what alexandria became part of the district of columbia, what went wrong and why it left. one the things i wanted to do with the book is give people a sense of what life was like in this time period. firefighting was very differently in this time period. crime was very different. slavery played a crucial role in the business world of this time period. politics were very different. i've done lots of research on the politics. what was essentially democratic city. so i thought that was kind of interesting because today in the modern world this is a democratic town in what is essentially a republican state. fro
join us as we explore its rich and varied history. beginning with a look at some of cities hidden stories from the past. >> the book is "the hidden history of alexandria." the last part of that time is very important because it's not about alexandria, virginia. it's about a period in history when the district of columbia included parts of what's now virginia. what i wanted to do was look at a 50 year time period and give a sense of what alexandria became part of the district of...
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in forecast, what physics meteorologist and the natural sciences can teach us about economics, physicist explain the ebb and flow of market of economy can relate to science. look for the title in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near too future on booktv and booktv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's a look at the prime time lineup for tonight. .. now author sara carr explores the results of the state legislature's decision shortly after hurricane katrina to re-assign control over the majority of new orleans public schools to the recovery school district, administered by the state. by following a student, teacher, and a principal as they traverse different segments of the education until system. this is a half an hour. >> it's great to see so many people out tonight who do such amazing work for kids in new orleans, and thank you for coming. i'm just going to talk for about 10 or 15 minutes or so and then take questions, and there's some people here tonight who are in the book and they might be willing to answer your questions during that session
in forecast, what physics meteorologist and the natural sciences can teach us about economics, physicist explain the ebb and flow of market of economy can relate to science. look for the title in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near too future on booktv and booktv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's a look at the prime time lineup for tonight. .. now author sara carr explores the results of the state legislature's decision shortly after hurricane...
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i wanted to beat us a jazz pianist. i was playing jesus loves me [laughter] then the bass and drums kickstand. the blind in the front row heckled so badly i never played publicly again. i'm very the blind. [laughter] -- i married the blind. i still like to tincal -- not tinkle. tinker on the piano. [laughter] in the last element is to love. i could lead to larger small groups but there was genuine love for the organization and when you do that you get a lot of leeway in the mistakes you make in the failures that will come your way and the guys will give you some leeway if they thank you really care about them or have a sense of what they are about. tiny to create to stay alive to return with honor we really with their heads held high and were beaten to where we had to bend and we've bent and try to give them as little as we could then we would come back and cry about it and tap on the walls and say i had to say i regret if i hurt the people that on the greater scheme and nothing but meant us and everything fifth met wea
i wanted to beat us a jazz pianist. i was playing jesus loves me [laughter] then the bass and drums kickstand. the blind in the front row heckled so badly i never played publicly again. i'm very the blind. [laughter] -- i married the blind. i still like to tincal -- not tinkle. tinker on the piano. [laughter] in the last element is to love. i could lead to larger small groups but there was genuine love for the organization and when you do that you get a lot of leeway in the mistakes you make in...
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they stopped using the table on the 73. he could run his fingers to the fingers of a cool metal dial. sicking the roughness of the bits of state. with this ticket dial the time himself. he would tell 737 constantly just to listen to the voice. when they noticed that the three was the orioles win the seven was seven. i thought, well, if three is three away in 7708 and 92 is to weigh in force for way in all that. judge of the number at random, remembering the digits as the dow. he heard a ringing signal. a woman's voice answered. i ask, is this 439011 and said yes. what do you want. i said, oh, i just might have a dial. playing in the real world my stink a double play in the world the telephone was fantastic. the fun and interesting things to listen to. even had people who would talk to him, and it was challenging. it was more than a playground. it was a laboratory, a place for located right things up and conduct as many experiments as he wanted. awhirl the possibility, a world prefaced with the most intoxicating of words, if
they stopped using the table on the 73. he could run his fingers to the fingers of a cool metal dial. sicking the roughness of the bits of state. with this ticket dial the time himself. he would tell 737 constantly just to listen to the voice. when they noticed that the three was the orioles win the seven was seven. i thought, well, if three is three away in 7708 and 92 is to weigh in force for way in all that. judge of the number at random, remembering the digits as the dow. he heard a ringing...
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the issue that hits us all home is that this is about us. they may come after these guys right now, but then what? and that is the thing that haunts me. i always think them for upping my book sales. and it's a tough issue and i just want to say, don't you think that telling young people know makes that seem sexy? [laughter] especially around literature he was lacerated for who he was some students, it's like they are in a landmine, but the worst happen, blowup and you'll find out that you are still together after it blew out. that is interesting to me and he told the students and take the shuttle and go over with it. talk to me about the hope. what is the hope? it is kind of easy to be jeremiah or elisha and callout doom. fire raining down on all of our heads. which is how we feel. is the hope in the power of being denied? is it in the unity of these people? i always look at the back bookshelves where i knew that stuff was hidden. you know what i'm talking about. [laughter] >> yeah, so what is the hope, do you feel? >> i think that the hope
the issue that hits us all home is that this is about us. they may come after these guys right now, but then what? and that is the thing that haunts me. i always think them for upping my book sales. and it's a tough issue and i just want to say, don't you think that telling young people know makes that seem sexy? [laughter] especially around literature he was lacerated for who he was some students, it's like they are in a landmine, but the worst happen, blowup and you'll find out that you are...
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it's hard for us to imagine those days at all. and i just think about the rapidity of change in my own family with mom sitting here, i can bring this up, when my mother was a child, her father told her only ugly women become lawyers. so that was the world she grew up in. and i grew up in a world where, um, my mother removed the barbie beauty palace that my grandfather gave me -- [laughter] and told me the next morning when i got up eager to play with it that it was lost. [laughter] and, you know, 1970s new york city. and then my daughter, we were watching the obama/hillary presidential election, and she was tiny, she was, like, 5, and she said -- i said, you know, she was a big obama supporter, and i said, you know, wouldn't it be cool if there was a woman president? and she looked at me really disdainfully, and she said, mom, of course there's been a woman president. [laughter] and it was, like, amazing that within that short time we went from only ugly women became lawyers to of course there's been a woman president in a 5-year-
it's hard for us to imagine those days at all. and i just think about the rapidity of change in my own family with mom sitting here, i can bring this up, when my mother was a child, her father told her only ugly women become lawyers. so that was the world she grew up in. and i grew up in a world where, um, my mother removed the barbie beauty palace that my grandfather gave me -- [laughter] and told me the next morning when i got up eager to play with it that it was lost. [laughter] and, you...
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david burstein, thanks for joining us. >> guest: thank you. one of the professors who spoke to was allan lichtman, his latest book cowritten with richard brightman is "fdr and the jews." watch that interview now. >> host: now on your screen is a familiar is for those of you who watch cable news station and c-span in its american university history professor, allan lichtman, who is just completed another book and this one is titled "fdr and the jews." professor lichtman, wended a policy discussion about european jews begin in the united states? >> guest: well, one could argue it begins as early as the woodrow wilson administration because great britain issued of course it statements balfour declaration in 1917, which said his majesty's government will do whatever it can to provide a homeland for jews in palestine, provided did not validate the rights of the people already there, leading to decades of controversy and woodrow and backed it up a ration that was very, very important. then of course franklin roosevelt to the presidency in 1933, almo
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in my way of looking at them, i just use a common phrase that i use for most of the trans this is the west, no white hats or blackouts, but a good many gray hats. >> or in this case, fer caps. >> i think there's a couple reasons the alamo resonated so deeply the most immediate i think was celebrity as michael knows better than all right, david crockett was one of the most famous people in the united states at the time and he was a very unusual politician and congressmen he came up from a different path. so it is as if sarah palin had been killed in the battle in afghanistan or something. there's just this amazing confusion about here is this guy, this colorful political character who is almost off the map and killed in this battle in the foreign land, which we have to remember this was mexico, it wasn't the united states or texas at the time. the other reason might think it is more emotional and 60 per and that is because the alamo has been portrayed for so long as a model of deliberate self sacrifice on the part of the alamo garrison and jam can speak to this more than i can. i never
in my way of looking at them, i just use a common phrase that i use for most of the trans this is the west, no white hats or blackouts, but a good many gray hats. >> or in this case, fer caps. >> i think there's a couple reasons the alamo resonated so deeply the most immediate i think was celebrity as michael knows better than all right, david crockett was one of the most famous people in the united states at the time and he was a very unusual politician and congressmen he came up...
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tell us how it's happening. that's an exciting process. they are doing it, and making the system more fair. for the misconduct we talked about before, where we have prosecutors withholding evidence, and, again, i mentioned the case, and i was so surprised when the case came out, and it happens way too often, and the victims are poor and african-americans, and it doesn't make the news, and we don't hear about it. >> host: the duke-la cross case? >> guest: that case, and that type of misconduct happens a lot, and i talked about that in the book. >> host: do you not think he should have been dismissed? >> guest: oh, i think he should have been, but i think a lot of other prosecutors should be too. that's the point. i fully believe that that case got the attention it did because those young men were well off, they were able to hire a topnotch defense team that because they had a team of lawyers, that team was able to discover the violation. they had to go through thousands and thousands of pages of complicated dna evidence to discover that the
tell us how it's happening. that's an exciting process. they are doing it, and making the system more fair. for the misconduct we talked about before, where we have prosecutors withholding evidence, and, again, i mentioned the case, and i was so surprised when the case came out, and it happens way too often, and the victims are poor and african-americans, and it doesn't make the news, and we don't hear about it. >> host: the duke-la cross case? >> guest: that case, and that type of...
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then i went to another meeting with us the african-american parents. there were talking about what they liked about the approach and have these more privileged white parents were trying to take something away that they value. and i feel like and its core this disconnect was about sociology and different beliefs and understandings and that deals surrounding all of this, surrounding education, all of which have some validity and a long history behind them. but some much of the writing and public discourse threat education does not really grapple with these issues and all. instead it is assessed with the admittedly not an important but much more abstract ideological battles surrounding such topics as governance improvisation. but the third major lesson i learned relates to both book writing and education. i didn't come as i said, no in a lot of ways what my book would be about when i started writing to be visited not know how the school year ago for the schools that i was in for the people lie was falling. and obviously i knew it would be about people's e
then i went to another meeting with us the african-american parents. there were talking about what they liked about the approach and have these more privileged white parents were trying to take something away that they value. and i feel like and its core this disconnect was about sociology and different beliefs and understandings and that deals surrounding all of this, surrounding education, all of which have some validity and a long history behind them. but some much of the writing and public...
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into the war and keep us there. thank you for coming. are there any questions? [applause] >> was he and anti-semitic and racist in your research did you find that the -- [inaudible] >> that took into account his full life and he argued in his years she died in his late 70's and this would have been sort of in his early seventies he became an old man and he fought with his publishers and journalists and other writers and he picked a fight with solomon rushdie but then a lot of them picked a fight with him. but he did utter some anti-semitic comments. he had a reputation like to say overall it's not a very nice older man. the only thing i would say in his defense is he saw an awful lot of death as a very young man when spinal surgeries were not a pretty. cells medicated from the 40's to the end of his life with booze and that can lead to a mean drunk and can make for some regrettable statements. but yes he did say some unfortunate things. >> can you enlarge and that a bit how did he look or actively new and perhaps to
into the war and keep us there. thank you for coming. are there any questions? [applause] >> was he and anti-semitic and racist in your research did you find that the -- [inaudible] >> that took into account his full life and he argued in his years she died in his late 70's and this would have been sort of in his early seventies he became an old man and he fought with his publishers and journalists and other writers and he picked a fight with solomon rushdie but then a lot of them...
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or use reasoning. they are irrational. their hot blooded, prisoners of their emotion. not because we fought a war with mexico and a calf of the territory or in international disputes which we could argue but anti-americanism is a way to look at the world as a mayor. we have a monologue we want it to tell us we're the fairest of them all. that makes an excellent fairy tale that is not very effective. >>host: have been talking with american university professor friedman rethink anti-americanism, the history of an exceptional concept in american foreign relations. here is the cover published by cambridge university press. you're watching the tv on c-span2. >> we have to take back media. independent media will save us they are the most powerful institutions on earth. more powerful than any bomb or missile. is an idea that explodes on to the scene. but it doesn't have been when it is contained by the box, the tv screen that we all days after so many hours a week. we need to be able to hear people speaking f
or use reasoning. they are irrational. their hot blooded, prisoners of their emotion. not because we fought a war with mexico and a calf of the territory or in international disputes which we could argue but anti-americanism is a way to look at the world as a mayor. we have a monologue we want it to tell us we're the fairest of them all. that makes an excellent fairy tale that is not very effective. >>host: have been talking with american university professor friedman rethink...
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that to us did in albany and he invented them and nobody could use them and got and then it was withdrawn then he went to court. that was one of his initiative lawsuits to right to the wrong and had a long history of that. as he was laying the monuments on the island he decided to publish his version of the commissioners' plan because he did this three manuscript version and submitted them then a city surveyor named bridges had come in to offer his services to make his copy of the map to in grave it which meant he could sell its and although no record of him being angry was quite angry. so as a late bout the monuments he started to issue his map, his version which would be engraved then he publicize the map, ready to sell its and ended up in a vicious battle with bridges and the newspaper about how his map was much better, more correct correct, bridges challenged randel all of the errors on produce map and he had not even copied his map correctly and in the end randel with drew the map and did not have it engraved because the war 1812 he was worried about security to provide a clear map t
that to us did in albany and he invented them and nobody could use them and got and then it was withdrawn then he went to court. that was one of his initiative lawsuits to right to the wrong and had a long history of that. as he was laying the monuments on the island he decided to publish his version of the commissioners' plan because he did this three manuscript version and submitted them then a city surveyor named bridges had come in to offer his services to make his copy of the map to in...
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again we will need to build out the market and people have to get used to it. we hear a lot about solar power. do you know how the proportion of overall energy in this country supplied by solar power? how about like one quarter of 1%? it is miniscule. essentially if you say we are going to build out a renewable economy we are almost starting at zero, so all the good ideas, it's miniscule. wind is a little bigger. the biggest source of renewable energy right now fortunately is corn ethanol and that is no improvement relative to fossil fuels. >> which government agency -- is that the department of energy? >> the department of energy did this one for renewable energy projects. .. the. >> they have these projects we talk about with the military which the utilities were forced to buy renewable power at a fixed long-term price of investors, not just big business but it smaller cooperative community development to put in the wind turbines even in cities. they invested a and the people knew was not a risk at a fixed price and they knew the market and that idea started
again we will need to build out the market and people have to get used to it. we hear a lot about solar power. do you know how the proportion of overall energy in this country supplied by solar power? how about like one quarter of 1%? it is miniscule. essentially if you say we are going to build out a renewable economy we are almost starting at zero, so all the good ideas, it's miniscule. wind is a little bigger. the biggest source of renewable energy right now fortunately is corn ethanol and...
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but it was useful to use dulles as the bad cop. so the famous massive retaliation speech in which dulles said if the soviets try anything, basically, we're going to nuke 'em or words to that effect, everybody thought that was dell lues' speech. we found out years later by looking in the speech files thattizen hour had written the -- that eisenhower had written the key paragraph. but he wanted dulles to give the speech. so it was useful for ike to use john foster dulles as sort of the heavy. now, dulles occasionally got a little too heavy and said things that were incendiary and problematic. more problematic for ike was alan dulles, john foster dulles' brother who was the head of cia. a relationship entirely too cozy. and alan dulles was a huge risk taker. and at first some of these risks seemed to work. the coups in guatemala and iran which today look horrible but at the time looked like a way to contain communism on the cheap. they looked like they worked, they were success. this sure is better than sending in whole armies to do t
but it was useful to use dulles as the bad cop. so the famous massive retaliation speech in which dulles said if the soviets try anything, basically, we're going to nuke 'em or words to that effect, everybody thought that was dell lues' speech. we found out years later by looking in the speech files thattizen hour had written the -- that eisenhower had written the key paragraph. but he wanted dulles to give the speech. so it was useful for ike to use john foster dulles as sort of the heavy....
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i am not as young as i used to be. but i think that i was taught american history in a way that everyone was. a series of upstanding guys who made inevitable decisions on the state and not. of course, this is what happened. because of course, that was what is going to happen. as an adult, i stumbled into this just a few years ago. i made a documentary about driving through the trail of tears. my ancestors were cherokee and the government forced them to march across the country at gunpoint. you know, i wanted to see where they locked. i came across the story and i really loved it and i researched it and it was not inevitable. they were all of these decisions made by actual people. not all of them were good, either. not many of them. pretty much none of them, come to think of it. there were a lot of squabbles, struggles, heartbreak and it is just a very dramatic and horrible story, but not boring. it wasn't as 4000 indians who died, it was 4000 people. women and children and babies and old folks. i don't really think whe
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you can use your laptop -- >> oh, that's not bad. that's good. >> i'm getting used to the train. philly, new york, d.c. i've been here for a week. >> [inaudible] >> oh, thanks how do you do that all the time? so early in the morning? >> [inaudible] >> 5:30. we did colbert last night which was a little more -- >> oh, i think slow him. tivo him. >> it was a little tougher. >> was he tough on you? >> he was good. he was good. >> everybody likes you. >> it was fun, it was fun. >> i didn't realize that -- [inaudible] >> most importantly -- >> you're what? >> yeah. you didn't -- i like that you talk up my athletic side. >> absolutely. >> yeah. i know. and so you can imagine how excited i was to still be mayor for that brief moment when the giants won that first world series. you know what? i had my -- >> [inaudible] >> by the way, i tried to get in spring training this year. come on, i used to workout with the team. i'm still working that. but one of the great gifts without overindulgence of the topic, i had my little tv show, and it ended january 31st, but my last guest, and i tried f
you can use your laptop -- >> oh, that's not bad. that's good. >> i'm getting used to the train. philly, new york, d.c. i've been here for a week. >> [inaudible] >> oh, thanks how do you do that all the time? so early in the morning? >> [inaudible] >> 5:30. we did colbert last night which was a little more -- >> oh, i think slow him. tivo him. >> it was a little tougher. >> was he tough on you? >> he was good. he was good. >>...
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can you give us a demonstration? he found four navajo men who worked in california and brought them to san diego and had them say a few things using a quick little code that he and they devised, and the marines were so impressed with how indecipherable it was and how foreign it all sounded to their ears that they said, yeah, we're going to give this a chance. the marines recruited 30 young navajo men to become code talkers and to actually design a code that other navajos couldn't break. >> one of the reasons was that the navajo language was one of the hardest things to learn. >> there were a couple other reasons they chose to use navajo. one, it was not at the time a written language so no one could buy a book on navajo and learn it, and, two, the sounds were very unfamiliar to anyone who had not grown up with navajos so it was almost impossible for anyone to learn, and, three, navajo people have always been very willing to participate in the military and defend their country because they were raised as warriors, and
can you give us a demonstration? he found four navajo men who worked in california and brought them to san diego and had them say a few things using a quick little code that he and they devised, and the marines were so impressed with how indecipherable it was and how foreign it all sounded to their ears that they said, yeah, we're going to give this a chance. the marines recruited 30 young navajo men to become code talkers and to actually design a code that other navajos couldn't break....
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for all of us there is no escape. there is no escapes from surviving, from dying, from the list that may come to all of us whether we are exposed to radiation or not. so as my friend michael said, you just face what is. facing the way of is facing the problems of living and surviving. and so it made it all the more precious and poignant >> i can't resist asking one more question. how did you feel about the children exposed to radiation and what will happen to them? that would be a whole new level of consciousness in historic memory. >> some children have been sent farther north, farther west and a sort of boarding school type of situation. a man i know who owns the patagonian of japan build a sustainable housing further north for children from the fukushima area. when you go to the kurdish restores food is labeled where it's been grown or harvested so sadly the cheapest food is the food that's the most radiated but this is market economy of the world. but you do have a choice coming and we were also very careful. no f
for all of us there is no escape. there is no escapes from surviving, from dying, from the list that may come to all of us whether we are exposed to radiation or not. so as my friend michael said, you just face what is. facing the way of is facing the problems of living and surviving. and so it made it all the more precious and poignant >> i can't resist asking one more question. how did you feel about the children exposed to radiation and what will happen to them? that would be a whole...
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tweet us your feedback twitter.com/booktv. here's a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. the virginia festival of the book starts on march 20-24th. it features several authors including douglas brinkly, congressman john lewis. also this weekend the 26th annual taliban williams new orleans literary festival in louisiana. it will feature the third annual poetry contest. live one act plays, and highlight presentation by authors william j. smith and patricia brady. the festival will feature author presentation and readings in the historic venice theater. the 11th annual book festival will be held at the key school in maryland on april 13. authors jake, gary, and hannah rosen are scheduled to present books. on april 20th alabama will host
tweet us your feedback twitter.com/booktv. here's a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. the virginia festival of the book starts on march 20-24th. it features several authors including douglas brinkly, congressman john lewis. also this weekend the 26th annual taliban williams new orleans literary festival in louisiana. it will feature the third annual poetry contest. live one act plays, and highlight presentation by authors william j. smith and patricia...
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paul tells us you are the body of cryings. the people of god, the mystical body, the church is the body of christ. well, i've noticed it was odd that's hardly referred to the fact that he didn't believe that that was the case, and he said it frequently and emphatically. i talked to peter brown, the great expert, and he was told by catholics that oh, august teen -- augustine believed it, but he believed in the early code of the church, which existed, but never applied to what was given out at the agape meal. it applied to the creed, especially. when you were prepared for baptism, you learned the creed by heart. you were forbidden to write it down or to say it out loud anywhere where a nonbaptized person could hear it. that was the innermost secret of the faith, the creed. as i explored it more and more, there's a line of people in the middle ages kind of forgotten now for very good reason, they all had the view that's not really the literal body and blood, and i began to wonder why why do we never hear about the people? we didn
paul tells us you are the body of cryings. the people of god, the mystical body, the church is the body of christ. well, i've noticed it was odd that's hardly referred to the fact that he didn't believe that that was the case, and he said it frequently and emphatically. i talked to peter brown, the great expert, and he was told by catholics that oh, august teen -- augustine believed it, but he believed in the early code of the church, which existed, but never applied to what was given out at...
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he compensated us for that. if what i just described set aig happened in the upper world country i would be done washington pounding the table about what they had done. we are doing that by suing the u.s. government because what happened should not have happened. so that is what the environment is like today. we have the boards the taken over companies, ceos of lost a lot of power. of us sang -- are not setting an aggressive, a disgrace if attorney-general. started that process. and what happens to enron led to changes in the entire environment. we have to find a way back reasonable regulatory environment. >> well, quite a revving story. clearly a great concern in terms of the points issue that you have made and what impact these kinds of developments and circumstances will have and have had on the american economy. we're going to invite the audience, this very distinguished audience to pose questions, but will for you deal with led to begin to pick up on a critical point that you referenced. corporate governmen
he compensated us for that. if what i just described set aig happened in the upper world country i would be done washington pounding the table about what they had done. we are doing that by suing the u.s. government because what happened should not have happened. so that is what the environment is like today. we have the boards the taken over companies, ceos of lost a lot of power. of us sang -- are not setting an aggressive, a disgrace if attorney-general. started that process. and what...
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let us now about your area. we'll post them. post them to our wall or e-mail us. for me something so right, dear, so necessary before we got in trouble as students as young people we studied. we just didn't wake up one morning and said we're going sit in. we didn't just dream one day that we're going to come to washington and go on the freedom ride or march on washington like 1963 we were going march as we did in 1965. we studied. we prepared ourself. >> intimidated so many people white people in particular by using that phrase. black power. because when they use the word or the phrase black power it made many think that black power meant destruction. blowing up the statute liberty or ground zero. destroying america. it wasn't anything about destroying america. it was about rebuilding america and having america to have a new paradigm in terms of how we can truly be with each and every one of us doing the pledge we were going elementary school and high school land of the free and home of the brave. they discuss their personal experiences during the civil rights mov
let us now about your area. we'll post them. post them to our wall or e-mail us. for me something so right, dear, so necessary before we got in trouble as students as young people we studied. we just didn't wake up one morning and said we're going sit in. we didn't just dream one day that we're going to come to washington and go on the freedom ride or march on washington like 1963 we were going march as we did in 1965. we studied. we prepared ourself. >> intimidated so many people white...
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it makes us very difficult for us as consumers to make choices, to make smart and informed choices about our foods. one of my favorite examples is subway. i used to be occasionally at subway before working on this book and now not so much anymore. i started looking at their ingredient list and they have done an amazing job at marketing themselves as a healthy alternative to fast food. this is partly true because they do limit the amount of and sodium in their product relative to mcdonald's and burger king. but they have also marketed, coming up with with the slogan that e. back fresh. they are selling fresh food. it has an incredible appeal, right? people want fresh but if you look at fruit and habits made and what tenet it becomes very clear that this is not grandmas homemade roast. subways bread just to focus on the bread is a classic example of industrial breadmaking. it has dough conditioners in it, a variety of them and these are in their because in industrial breadmaking the bread is beaten up and thrashed around in the spread mixers. if you don't have to conditioners in their the
it makes us very difficult for us as consumers to make choices, to make smart and informed choices about our foods. one of my favorite examples is subway. i used to be occasionally at subway before working on this book and now not so much anymore. i started looking at their ingredient list and they have done an amazing job at marketing themselves as a healthy alternative to fast food. this is partly true because they do limit the amount of and sodium in their product relative to mcdonald's and...
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is what they are used to. they've been competing for that and that's what the lawyers want. frankly i think we could get a lot more out of me writing evaluations about them in the way that talks about the strength and weaknesses, what they brought to the table, more like a letter of recommendation than a letter parade. >> host: do you find a difference between students to take out student loans or have their parents before it? >> guest: i find a difference in those that work and those that do not. the students working, this is their money. the students the takeout alone it's eventually going to be their money back to them it's somewhere in the future. those that are working are putting in the equity right now to get the education and i think that they are generally more serious student and demand more from all of us in the classroom. >> host: in our look how to succeed in college, you have a chapter, sub chapter the liberal ivory tower. can a conservative student -- can a student who is conservative be success
is what they are used to. they've been competing for that and that's what the lawyers want. frankly i think we could get a lot more out of me writing evaluations about them in the way that talks about the strength and weaknesses, what they brought to the table, more like a letter of recommendation than a letter parade. >> host: do you find a difference between students to take out student loans or have their parents before it? >> guest: i find a difference in those that work and...
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i was wrong that publishers are used less. [laughter] and i was glad for it to. it was their money i want to make sure we are both doing something. [laughter] and i learned about the excitement and the limits of individual authors to create their own presence but there is a flood of trading with tweets or blocks to a and how you discover or convince somebody you are worth their time? attention is the currency and if you are watching a cat play a fiddle on you to where the future of blackness could be an equal choice for some people competing for pixels or mental real estate there are so many extra writers competing for attention that a publisher who knows what they're doing can add some extra weight onto the individual kickstart your. >> that is true if you are the exception because you approach the best seller because the shelf life is a matter of weeks or. . . over the previous
i was wrong that publishers are used less. [laughter] and i was glad for it to. it was their money i want to make sure we are both doing something. [laughter] and i learned about the excitement and the limits of individual authors to create their own presence but there is a flood of trading with tweets or blocks to a and how you discover or convince somebody you are worth their time? attention is the currency and if you are watching a cat play a fiddle on you to where the future of blackness...
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we actually have a few people here with us, and we're happy to have c-span join us. thank you very much to be here. and illinois channel has been a here and liz taylor from the tribune literary book section is with us, and we appreciate all of them being here, also voice of america is covering us today as well. just before we go on i should tell you all that while we're live, and this is not for c-span, unfortunately, but while we're live you can e-mail in questions. we hope you will. give us your first name and where you're from, and we'll shout out to you and try to get it on air as quickly as we can. if you're watching the archive, you can always ask us if we have signed books still. you certainly don't want to be with the screenplay of the "lincoln" movie after it's signed -- after it gets to be an oscar winner and you don't have it signed. so get it now while you can. and if you're on c-span and would like to be a part of us, i hope that you will by getting to virtual book signing.net and leaving your e-mail and be a part of the virtual book signing family. also
we actually have a few people here with us, and we're happy to have c-span join us. thank you very much to be here. and illinois channel has been a here and liz taylor from the tribune literary book section is with us, and we appreciate all of them being here, also voice of america is covering us today as well. just before we go on i should tell you all that while we're live, and this is not for c-span, unfortunately, but while we're live you can e-mail in questions. we hope you will. give us...
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he used his celebrity and was also a great baseball player, won the rookie of the year award he used his celebrity to advocate for civil rights. he became a fund-raiser for the naacp. on what to picket lines. he wrote a column in the new york post and other newspapers where he was always boys in his views about civil rights, and he was quite an outspoken athlete. and a lot of his fellow baseball players, including some of the black players that came after him to kept calling him jackie shut up and play baseball. not your job to be an activist. he said, that's who i am. he wanted to do that. he was quite outspoken. in the early 1950's the general manager of the brooklyn dodgers asked, and that think probably more reason to to say told jackie robinson to testified before congress about the situation of african-americans. there was a hidden agenda in his testimony, and it was earlier that year the great singer in activist and actor has apparently given a speech where he said he had gone to visit russia. he thought that russia was -- did not have a lot of segregation are racist beliefs.
he used his celebrity and was also a great baseball player, won the rookie of the year award he used his celebrity to advocate for civil rights. he became a fund-raiser for the naacp. on what to picket lines. he wrote a column in the new york post and other newspapers where he was always boys in his views about civil rights, and he was quite an outspoken athlete. and a lot of his fellow baseball players, including some of the black players that came after him to kept calling him jackie shut up...
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they used google searches. now, google handles more than three billion searches a day and saves them all. google took 50 million of the most common-searched terms that americans use and compared when and where these terms were searched for with flu data going back five years. the idea was to predict the spread of the flu through web searches alone. they struck gold. what you're looking at right now is a graph, and the graph is showing that after crunching
they used google searches. now, google handles more than three billion searches a day and saves them all. google took 50 million of the most common-searched terms that americans use and compared when and where these terms were searched for with flu data going back five years. the idea was to predict the spread of the flu through web searches alone. they struck gold. what you're looking at right now is a graph, and the graph is showing that after crunching
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all of us are sinners, all of us have done wrong. all of us have broken fall at some point in our lives. if you are an adult, you have broken a double wall at some point in your life. i find some people will say yeah ims sinner. i've made mistakes but don't call me a criminal. don't call me a criminal and i said okay well maybe you never drink under age. maybe you never experimented with drugs. the worst thing you've done in your entire life is to speed 10 miles over the speed of light on the freeway you put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone's looking marijuana in the privacy of their own living room. but there are people in the united states serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses. life sentences. the supreme court upheld life sentences for first-time drug offenders against a challenge that such sentences were cruel and unusual in violation of the eighth amendment and the supreme court said no, no, it's not cruel and unusual punishment to sentence the young man to life imprisonment for a first-time dr
all of us are sinners, all of us have done wrong. all of us have broken fall at some point in our lives. if you are an adult, you have broken a double wall at some point in your life. i find some people will say yeah ims sinner. i've made mistakes but don't call me a criminal. don't call me a criminal and i said okay well maybe you never drink under age. maybe you never experimented with drugs. the worst thing you've done in your entire life is to speed 10 miles over the speed of light on the...
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i don't find it to be as useful as others might but students want them because that is what they're used to and they have been competing for that and they think that is what employers want but i think we get more out of me writing evaluations talking about a strength and weaknesses and like a letter of recommendation verses a letter grade. >> host: to find a difference those taking out student loans are those who have parents pay for it? >> guest: i do find a difference between those who work and those who don't. this is their money if they do take up the loan it will be eventually but it is in the future but those who are working poor in the sweat equity and they are generally more serious students signed into more in the classroom. >> host: you have a subchapter the liberal ivory tower could the conservative student could take conservative student be successful at harvard or the american university? >> absolutely. that justice bills the myth. these are not bastions of liberalism. what we are after here, i do my job but any student will have his pre-existing views challenged whether a l
i don't find it to be as useful as others might but students want them because that is what they're used to and they have been competing for that and they think that is what employers want but i think we get more out of me writing evaluations talking about a strength and weaknesses and like a letter of recommendation verses a letter grade. >> host: to find a difference those taking out student loans are those who have parents pay for it? >> guest: i do find a difference between...
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reagan, and all of us at the reagan library over the years. let us extend that warmth to him. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming governor jeb bush. [applause] >> very kind. really honored to be here. [applause] whoo, thank you. thank you all so much. ambassador, great seeing you. thank you so much. it is an incredible honor to be in this beautiful place. i am, i'm just in awe of what you all have done here and truly privileged and honored to be here. i thought i would start my remarks by giving you a quick bush family update. first, i want to thank everybody for their or thoughts and prayers for my dad. as he said, put the harps back in the closet, it wasn't time to go. [laughter] he's always had a pretty good sense of humor, and thank goodness he was right about that. and the harps are back in the closet. that's the good news. he's out of the hospital and regaining his strength little by little. yesterday he was at his library, in fact, with prime minister mull roney, and he's been there at texas a&m now twice in the last two weeks which is a good sign that he
reagan, and all of us at the reagan library over the years. let us extend that warmth to him. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming governor jeb bush. [applause] >> very kind. really honored to be here. [applause] whoo, thank you. thank you all so much. ambassador, great seeing you. thank you so much. it is an incredible honor to be in this beautiful place. i am, i'm just in awe of what you all have done here and truly privileged and honored to be here. i thought i would start...
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louis, daily it was something different, thce used clergy people against us. had cleared the p he ple shutdo buildings tary blocking the doo and letters to customers telling them how bad we were. and we treat our employees bad and hazardous chemicals and bad eqtrylatent. and wrote letters and gave them to the pres bo that were published, they used united states senator to call one of our largest customers and ask to have our contract canceled unless i sign this agreement. Ã aay abier day these attacks occurred. you don't hear about this in the press even today but i am here to tell you it is true. it is happening to companies acros bo this country every day and it is sad and nee pl to be stopped. unions have realized they are dinosaurs and they don't want to compete in the free magaiet. they don't understand that that is what they have to do. instead they want to go to intimidation tactics and they are pushing for card check and this administration is helping them through the national lhave relations board that james was talking about. they are posing nrs a p
louis, daily it was something different, thce used clergy people against us. had cleared the p he ple shutdo buildings tary blocking the doo and letters to customers telling them how bad we were. and we treat our employees bad and hazardous chemicals and bad eqtrylatent. and wrote letters and gave them to the pres bo that were published, they used united states senator to call one of our largest customers and ask to have our contract canceled unless i sign this agreement. Ã aay abier day these...
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they are still in use obviously. i think amazon uses them in the warehouses, and there are a lot of segue to worse around the country if she were in a city you can take a tour of the city in the sec'y. this technology is around, and maybe it will have bigger use in the future. the point is interesting is that he actually became a wealthy off of his inventions but if you look at sort of, you know, how they track over time you couldn't necessarily put them all together and say that is exactly what he was doing and in fact the way he got into it is by building these sort of light shows that were synchronized and music and he was able to see some of the technology as a teenager actually at planetarium in new york. i actually talk about thomas edison and the book. of course, you know, the inventor of the century, you know, he was hailed again the same issue with our franklin as he raised the issue is so high people thought of tinkering he almost seemed otherworldly but i tell the story in my book the invention of the devi
they are still in use obviously. i think amazon uses them in the warehouses, and there are a lot of segue to worse around the country if she were in a city you can take a tour of the city in the sec'y. this technology is around, and maybe it will have bigger use in the future. the point is interesting is that he actually became a wealthy off of his inventions but if you look at sort of, you know, how they track over time you couldn't necessarily put them all together and say that is exactly...